Gianfar tx-babbling-errors

[Scott Coulter]

Hi all,

As a simple stress test for my board with an MPC8572E and an MPC8568E on
it, I setup both processors to boot linux 2.6.27.6 with an NFS root and
then perform repeated native compiles of a linux kernel over NFS.  After
running for 4 days straight or so with between 250-300 build cycles per
processor, I stopped the builds and ran ethtool to look for any odd
statistics.  Both processors reported non-zero values for
tx-babbling-errors.  Both processors reported around 1300
tx-babbling-errors out of about 80,000,000 Tx packets.  Should I be
concerned about the tx-babbling-errors?  What conditions would cause
these errors to be reported?

Thanks,
Scott





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  Scott N. Coulter
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